The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-08-11


are glad to inform him that the breeze is
blowing, the sails are filling, and to the
captain and crew we look for prosperous
voyage The story of the logbook can but
be full of cheer.-[ Durham Tobacco Plant.
If Cleveland does attend our State Fair,
and it is probable he will there will be more
people in Raleigh on that day than ever
have been on any previous occasion. The
railroad companies will not be able to pro
| vide transportation for the immense crowd.
Chatham county alone would send thou
sand visitors. We well remember what a
large crowd from this county went to see
President Buchanan at Chapel Hill, in
! 1859. \ large crowd also went there in
1856. to see President Johnson. - Pittsboro
Record.
Why not work the roads by taxation2
| 1t is time the matter was thoroughly dis
cussed What the remedy is The Plant
does not pretend to know. The Wilson
Advance has been advocating ''wheel
/ tax" Will that meet the necessities of
/ the case: Some kind of tax ought to be
/ imposed. The roads ought TO be kept up
/ by those who use them and by those to
whose profit they contribute. Il is hard
/ to compel hundreds Of men in all sections
/ Of the State to devote their time and their
muscle to the good of their better-otf-
neighbors when it can profit themselves
nothing Durham Tobacco Plant
The fact that much of the best talent in
i North Carolina is leaving the State is a mat
ter that should engage the serious atten-
/ ton of our people. Wherein is the cause?
/ Why should not North Carolina hold her
/ own and at the same time attract and
! draw others to our borders! There must
/ be reason for this loss Of able men-this
moving and going TO other States of those
we should encourage and keep within our
/ own. one cause, We are inclined to think,
i IS because our people give so little atten
/ ton 10 this matter, and are inclined TO un-
/ dervalue the benefit men Of talent are to
the State in al the yocatlons Of life-espe-
eially those in places of public trust
i Charlotte Chronicle.
/
The enemies of public schools and free
| education will contest every inch of ground,
/ but they are bound eventually to go to the
wall The people remember well that
when the State and the public welfare de
manded that a man should shoulder his
musket and march to the front he was
not asked if he had property to fight for.
/ 1t was only necessary that he should be an
| able bodied man, and finally this qualiti-
cation was not particularly inquired after.
! Children who are liable to be called upon
for such public service are entitled to a
fair education at the expense of the pub
lic and public sentiment is fast drifting
in this direction, even in North Carolina.
wi New Berne Journal.
We have several histories" of North
Carolina, but they are rather partial, one
sided concerns mainly devoted to the
praise of professional men and office
holding politicians We need history
that will contain such names of the de
ceased as Edward J. Hale, Western K
Gales. Peter NJ Hale, James Fulton,
Thomas Loring, Thos. J. Lemay, Thos. j.
Hoton and others, printers and editors,
who did more for North Carolina than all
the office-holding gentlemen ever did ID
their lifetime Also, let the noble deeds
Of engine builders, civil engineers, house
builders, and other prominent mechanics,
be recorded. Let all classes have a fair
showing in new history. Charlotte
| Home Democrat.
If this question Of mixed schools is to
/ loom up as important, the southern tax
PAYERS will make short work of the com
mon school system. In the North there is
no mixing of the races in schools or
! churches, or in social life. 1t would des-
troy any popular institution Of learning IN
the North; it would disintegrate any
church and destroy it in the end, and II
would send any family of social rank to
Coventry, there to remain, that would IN
troduce the negro element. In the North
the sentimental gush and sympathetic
palaver are all meant for the South. The
South must do this and that, but the North,
with an impudence as cool as Greenland
lev mountains says 'as for us we will dc
none of it it.-TAsheville Advance"
The Scotland Neck Democrat, in bring
ing out Col. W. L. Saunders for Governor
next year, gives deserved recognition tt
the ability and worth of one of the most
remarkable men in the State. His hear
is as big as his body and Intellectually ht
is hard to measure. 1t is very doubtful Il
we have an ADLER man. He exercises {
larger influence upon the public policy o.
North Carolina and of the Democratic
party than any other one man. He wa
the father of the constitutional convention
of 1875, and all of its important acts bea
his impress. No line of party policy Ii
ever agreed on until he has been consulted
and approves 'Sage counsel In cumber
red hand in the foray," he is matchless IL
his capacity to plan, to organize. Wha
campaign he would set on foot and wha
Governor he would make! But how
about his appearing before the people! TO
you should know that he is physically help
less Gout holds him prisoner in a roll
ing chair Living in that chair, and SLEEP
, ing in his clothes half the time in winter
his great big body racked nearly all tn
time with pain he still manages to do in